Play Arts Kai DC Comics Variant Batman New Pic

Square Enix‘s Hidemi Matsuzuka has tweeted out a new pic. The photo gives us a new look at the production sample for the Play Arts Kai DC Comics Variant Batman. It is scheduled for release in August at an MSRP of 8,800 Yen (about $90 USD).

Digging Batman and Wonder Woman. Not Green Lantern so much. Not sure how deep I want to go into this scale. Right now all the SEPA I have are from video games and are contained. But, with the Man of Steel Zod, and these, might get sucked in.

Batman has the best balance of all three of them. It's the best looking design. That said, it's too animu for me. I really don't like it.

Green Lantern, I agree with the "too mech suit" comments. Though... that could have been a really awesome direction had they gone even MORE in that direction, and made the "mech" parts out of translucent green plastic... make the mech suit aspect out of construct, while keeping the black parts looking more like body armor.

Wonderwoman, for some reason I actually like her. Though, with this over all design she really needed black pants on her upper legs. I think she'd have been a lot more striking.

But, now we know what a DCU/Final Fantasy crossover would look like. (I think if they did a straight DCU game, the game designers would stick closer to the actual iconic costume designs)

Digging Batman and Wonder Woman. Not Green Lantern so much. Not sure how deep I want to go into this scale. Right now all the SEPA I have are from video games and are contained. But, with the Man of Steel Zod, and these, might get sucked in.

I'm considering backing out of PAK collecting. SE is still using those fragile pec/shoulder/chest pivots(made out of soft plastic, why, I don't know), and their sporadic qc problems haven't really improved. They have a monopoly at the 8-10" scale for video game figures and they continue because there's no competition for them.

If another company was willing to have just as detailed sculpts with up to par if not more articulation and the intriciate paint apps as well as way higher quality plastic, I would probably ditch PAKs altogether.

Thing is the only other things close to these are D-Arts(much smaller, nowhere near as detailed paint apps), and Revoltechs(another PVC based line with the same type of qc problems, smaller scale).

I love the artistic interpretation of Batman, looks awesome, Green Lantern in this line has always looked weird, Wonder Woman is okay.